They are a bit more convoluted, with Office 365 Business Premium now called Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business now becoming Microsoft 365 Business Premium, but for the most part, this is about branding while prices stay the same.
Microsoft is making similar branding changes to its business plans for Office 365. “We are basically evolving our subscription from - in our minds - a set of tools to solutions that help you manage across your work and life,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s CVP of Modern Life, Search and Devices, told me ahead of today’s announcement. That’s the same price as the existing Office 365 Personal and Home plans. On April 21, it’ll be replaced by new Microsoft 365 plans, including new personal and family plans (for up to six people) at $6.99 and $9.99 respectively. Office 365, which has long been the brand for the company’s subscription service for its productivity tools like Word, Excel and Outlook, is going away. Microsoft today announced a slew of new products, but at the core of the release is a major change to how the company is marketing its tools and services to consumers.
